Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Four gazillion television shows wanted me that night--more an indication of TV's grudging recognition that money plays almost as big a role in people's lives as sports. I headed home to my wife and kids. Perhaps it was the screeching headlines waking the bears from hibernation, but I awoke at 2:30 a.m. that night. I couldn't believe I had been dumb enough to buy in that last half-hour. And I had told everybody about...
...safe harbors of yesteryear that resonate. Dinner parties are better than dance clubs, and settling down beats swinging free. "I'm amazed at how quickly I went from the bar culture to intimate dinner parties," says Mark Toft, 26, a writer who lives in St. Louis, Mo., with his wife Beth. "Nesting means you get to trade a crazy public space for a place where you can define...
...bits and pieces throughout," Becker says of his contributions to the new Joy. Bearded and amiable, he lives with his third wife Susan in the house his parents built just outside Cincinnati, Ohio, in the late 1930s. The kitchen is spacious--he used some of his advance to enlarge it--but not professionally formidable. "We've always tried to keep regular cooking appliances," he explains about the Joy family tradition. "If you could make it here, you could make it anywhere...
...Edwardiana; curiosity drives her into many movie landscapes. She is splendid as the impatient girlfriend of penniless poet Richard E. Grant in a lovely new film of George Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying. She has played Marina Oswald (the TV movie Fatal Deception), Woody Allen's selfish wife (in Mighty Aphrodite), Sister Clare to Mickey Rourke's Francis of Assisi (no, really, in the 1989 Francesco), a French-speaking fashion designer (Portraits Chinois), a bachelor-party stripper (the BBC's Dancing Queen) and a scrubwoman who lops off vital parts of her deceased loved ones--tongue, lungs, finger, penis...
Since then, largely through his own doing, Brown has become better known as a volatile tabloid spectacle--throwing punches on disco floors and inexplicably vanishing from New Edition's reunion tour. There have also been frequent rumors of turbulent relations with his wife, pop queen Whitney Houston, in which Brown is usually cast as the heavy...